The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK

drowned at Chu Chou Flu, on the
Wenchow river, in Chine, by recent
floods. The destruction OF growing
crops has been immense.
George Kamerer, aged 16 years,
was drowned while bathing at Lake
Canadota, neal TItusYille. Penna., on
the afternoon of the 4th.
jackson Slater and Peter Gaffney
were killed on the 4th by a falling wall
while making an excavation at Susque-
hanna, penna. Thomas Cameron,
aged % years, a Chicagoan, on the
afternoon ofthe 4th, fell from a fourth
floor window of the Windsor Hotel
through a skylight and landed on the
first floor of the Evening Wisconsin
Office adjoining. He is believed to be
fatally injured. He was drunk at the
time.
"A sudden wind storm, covering a
small area, on the afternoon of the 4th,
flew down a building In n or the
suburbs of Cincinnati, on which ten
men were working. Eight of them
were Slightly injured, but Peter CAT
ferer and his ffteen.year-old son, who
were mixing mortar outside, sustained
fatal injuries.
Fires i'll the Manhattan and Chan
nahan townships, near Joliet, Illinois,
have burned over hundreds of acres of
pasture, stubble and woodland. The
creeks in that region are all dry, For
est fires have been raging along the
line of the Green Bay, Winona M s..
Paul Railroad, in Wisconsin. Thou
sands of dollars worth of valuable tim
Der has been destroyed lea Merrillon
Junction, and at Lynn a saw mill was
destroyed. The fires were checked on
the 4th, by rain.
%. 3. Richold, convicted of larceny
and awaiting the action of the Court OF
Appeals on a petition for a new trial,
broke Jail at Winchester, Virginia, on
the morning of the 4th, for the second
time. He released three colored pris-
oners, two of them convicted OF theft,
and one accused Of murder. The latter
vas recaptured.
Frederick o. Horton. aged 26
years, committed suicide by shooting
himself in his fathers cellar in Brook
Ign on the evening Of the Sd. "a lady,
who was willing to have him spend
money on her though she did not re-
turn his love, is said to be the cause of
the deed" William Kelly, 90 years of
age, committed suicide in Brooklyn Oh
the morning Of the 4th, by shooting
himself through the head lie had
been out OF employment for some time.
"A sixth attempt to burn out the
Ne@ Yorker Zeitung, IN New York,
was made on the afternoon of the 4th.
The fire started ON the third floor in
some old files OF the DemOkrdt. None
but the employees are allowed i'll that
part of the building, ana 1t is not
known show the blaze came about"
The watchman had found everything
right only fifteen minutes before the
alarm. The flames were quickly ex-
tinguIshed.
An election was held on the 4th in
Texas on the question of Prohibition.
All the southern counties gave large
anti-Prohibition majoritles, and 1t Is
estimated that the State has given 49,
900 majority against Prohibition.
Two freight trains on the Burllng-
ton and Missouri River Railroad col
lided near North Bend, Nebraska, on
the Sd. Both engines and thirteen cars
were thrown into the North Platte
river. Two tramps stealing a ride were
killed. A westbound coke train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad was wrecked by
a broken axle in Carpenters tunnel, IS
miles east Of Pittsburg, on the evening
of the Sd. Eleven cars were smashed
and the tracks were not cleared until
the morning Of the 4th. j. NJ. Cod
dington, a brakeman, was so badly in
jured that his recovery is doubtful.
Two children of Mrs. Murray Wilson
were killed and she was dangerously
injured by being run v e by an engine
at a railroad crossing in Chicago, on
the afternoon of the 4th. Several cars
Of Il train on the Newport News and
Mississippi Valley Railroad, in Vir-
ginia, were thrown from the track near
Greenwood, on the 4tb. b. w. Petit
way, baggage master, was killed, and
about twelve passengers were slightly
injured.
SOUS" Lester, a rough, residing
near Perkasie, Bucks county, Pa, shot |
his wi e during a drunken brawl on the
evening of the 4tb, and 1t is feared she
is MORALLY wounded. Emile Revoire, |
one of the editors of the L'Opinion, |
and NJ. Larrien, Jr,, President of the
Club de la Democratic Francois, |
fought a duel with short swords on the
9Th on Sebastian Roy's plantation, st. |
Barnard parish, Louisiana. Larrien
was seriously wounded in the breast
and right hand by a single stroke. This
difficulty was about an article in
L'Opinion rejecting on the members
of the club for endorsing Governor
McEnery. While John Taylor, Tim"
Keeton, John Vance and ELI 1T Mar
tin were on their way to court at
Mcrehead, Kentucky, as witnesses on
the 4th, they were stopped by a gang
OF masked men near Dry Creek. They
refused to tell their business when
asked, when the maskers opened Gre,
wounding John Taylor and John
Vance. and killing Elliott Martin. 1t
is thought their evidence could have
damaged somebody connected with
the recent murder of the young Lo-
gans. A sensation was caused in Tie
court at Morehead, Kentucky, on the
4th, by a wal of words between ID. Il.
Logan and Il. Z. Young. Pistols were
drawn by friends on both sides, but the !
cooking of the rifles of the soldiers on
guard was heard. An order to load
was heard from The outside, and the
crowd knew that The first move on the
part Of either party would be followed
be a deadly lire from the troops.
Fifty tons of rock fell on the 9TH
in the eastern end of the Cascade tun-
mel, o being built for tie Northern
Pacific Railroad In Washington Terri
tory. -Four men were killed and sew
eral were injured, but none fatally. |
The men assert that the contractors
we're careless AVID did not timber the
tunnel fast enough TO keep up with the
boring.
Two of the injured in the disaster
on the Newport News Railroad, near
Greenwood, Virginia, on the 4th-l
Francis Nash. of Brooklyn, and Miss
Sallie Carroll, of Roncevert, Wcst Vir-
ginia, are not expected to O
Mrs TisIel of Nav York. suffered in |